What I’ve been reading (, watching, and listening to) this week ending 10 May 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-10-may-2026-27fcb149fc3d #SoftwareArchitecture #AI #GitHub #DataArchitecture #EV #management #cybersecurity #economics
ai
#翻译 之所以成为被 #AI 侵入最快的行业，是因为缺少“ #私有上下文 ”，几乎所有的技能和信息都是公开的（一名翻译很容易取代另一名翻译的工作），而且是相对容易数字化的（海量的现成文本和音频）。完全满足这些条件的职业其实并不多。
本来，高质量的文章就是适合机器翻译的。不适合机器翻译的文字常常是因为本身就写得比较混乱，这种文字大概率不值得花高成本去翻译。而且，一个可以感受到的趋势是，因为机器翻译的出现，很多文章为了能扩大受众，自觉不自觉地写成机器容易翻译的样子。
没人认为现在所有的人工翻译都不存在了，但是这个市场在显著地萎缩，因为机器翻译有几个数量级的成本和速度优势（几分钟几毛钱翻译一本书，更不要说优势还每秒钟都在扩大！）。少数不差钱的客户没法撑起一整个行业。
"One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
A lot of generative AI stuff isn’t really working,” Gownder told The Register. “And I’m not just talking about your consumer experience, which has its own gaps, but the MIT study that suggested that 95 percent of all generative AI projects are not yielding a tangible [profit and loss] benefit. So no actual [return on investment.]”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-failing-boost-productivity
#duck #ai
嗨，各位 @board Fedi 友们大家好！
俺之前在 @https://ovo.st/club/board 板块向各位 Fedi 友们推荐了 2023 年由 DuckDuckGo 推出的 Duck.ai 服务
但是俺在早几日凌晨时段访问时遭遇 DNS 劫持，跳转到一个非法赌博网站、但还好之后已恢复正常
俺怀疑这可能是当地 ISP 的问题，因为俺知道中国大陆有这种情况发生
如果可以，也可以回复此贴告诉俺是否遭遇俺类似情况、如果下次也遭遇、也请将详细问题回复至此贴
DuckDuckGo Ai - https://duck.ai/
Learning a new AI-related term: workslop.
"The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver."
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
#workslop #AI #slop #GenAI #technology #news #TechNews #study
🤖 WNB.rb Meetup Alert!
Join us Tuesday, September 30th at Noon Eastern for "Thoughtful AI for the Rubyist" with @christine!
Ever wondered how to make AI work for you without losing that Ruby magic? Christine will show us how to integrate AI tools into our Ruby workflow while keeping our code elegant and intentional.
Ruby enthusiast + lifetime learner - Christine brings practical wisdom with a bit of humor or at least she thinks so 😉
🔗 Join us: https://discord.gg/bd9ZHBB8?event=1414956005699096686
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CNN: Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026
"...It’s hard to quantify just how widespread the phenomenon is, but certain notably offline hobbies are exploding in popularity. Arts and crafts company Michael’s has seen the effects: Searches for “analog hobbies” on its site increased by 136% in the past six months, according to the company, which operates over 1,300 stores in North America. Sales for guided craft kits increased 86% in 2025, and it expects that number to go up another 30% to 40% this year.
Searches for yarn kits, one of the most popular “grandma hobbies,” increased 1,200 % in 2025. ..."
(Paywall maybe)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/business/crafting-soars-ai-analog-wellness
Join us for the webinar on the Copyrightability of LLM-generated code, a legal education training seminar on legal questions arising from the use of LLMs in the creation of Free Software.
Gabriel Ku Wei Bin, Legal Programme Manager at @fsfe will give a talk followed by a Q&A.
October 29, 13.00 CET
For the link to the BBB room and more info, see https://nlnet.nl/events/20261029/index.html. No need to register, but if you'd like a ping in advance you can send an email.
🎃👻Finally, after an epic battle against Gitea CI:
The definitive answer to the question, "Is AI intelligent yet?"
If current-generation LLM-based chatbots can drive people to commit crimes or even take their own lives, what do you suppose Neuralink would do to people?
The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was "everyone will go insane immediately". I still believe that, but now we're beginning to see evidence.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Neuralink #tech #dev #HCI #BrainImplants
The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was "everyone will go insane immediately". I still believe that, but now we're beginning to see evidence.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Neuralink #tech #dev #HCI #BrainImplants
So…MIT has an AI incident tracker. It tracks and classifies the damage AI has done and harm it has caused. The classification is defined by seven key categories:
Discrimination/toxicity
Privacy/security
Misinformation
Malicious actors
HCI
Socioeconomic/environmental
System safety/failures/limitations
Tracked by AI. 😂
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“AI is a surveillance empire wrapped in a trenchcoat with some fairy dust on it” Meredith Witthaker, CEO of @signalapp, in her @publix talk in Berlin. #AI
The upcoming edition of Art Meets Radical Openness is titled “Becoming Unreadable.” It explore ways of #resisting the toxic dimensions of contemporary hypervisibility. By this, we refer to the current logic of platform-mediated social and political discourse, to the global-scale #extraction and appropriation #infrastructures feeding the #AI and strengthening new and old colonial threads.
The call for participation is open
https://radical-openness.org/en/amro26-call-participation
deadline 16th January 16:26 CET
What I’ve been reading (and listening to) this week ending 8 March 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-8-march-2026-6ed77607b00d #poverty #resilience #management #AI #economics #addiction #ClimateChange #cybersecurity #heroes #depression #product #engineering
#Majestic #Mountain #View with #Aurora by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/majestic-mountain-view-with-aurora-kaye-menner.html
#digitalart #ai #landscape #stream #flowers #wilderness #colorful #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #VisualArts #CreativeArts
My honest take on AI: I am not entirely against it, I’ve seen AIs that can do good things that are powered by renewable resources, but we need strong regulation and we need to ban anyone that profits off of AI “art”. AI art can be cool for personal use such as wallpapers or avis if you don’t profit off of it or excessively promote it on your social media. I believe AI can be useful, but that is only if it is in the hands of co-ops and the general population, not corporations. #AI #aiart
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Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?
#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273
#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity
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🎤 Our second Open Science Conference keynote will be given by Sonja Schimmler (TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS) about “Data Infrastructures and Data Competencies as a Foundation for AI Projects”.
💡Critical components that drive AI progress
🔍 Foundational role of infrastructures and competencies in AI-driven initiatives
👉 Join us: https://www.open-science-conference.eu
#OSC2025 #OpenScience #AI
GOG now using AI generated images on their store https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-now-using-ai-generated-images-on-their-store/
#pennyArcade #author -side today also has some brief but good (well, bad) writing about how every business he has to interact with to "do" penny-arcade is an #ai #scam including interesting notes about uncancellable, no-human-reachable billing.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/07/24/the-leto-protocol
In this talk at an #AI conference, you only need to watch the conclusion at the end. Only watch 2 secs. until you heard this..
> Software is a human endeavor [..] AI changes everything about how we code. But in fact I don't think it changes *anything* about how #software fails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIoohUmYpGI&t=1060s
-- The Infinite #SoftwareCrisis – Jake Nations, Netflix
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💥 BOOM.. #CodingIsSocial. Period.
Human endeavor to satisfy human needs and package them into proper solutions.